Ashlynn Young

EDU 470

Mrs. Huston

October 30, 2022

Inclusion Setting IEP Evaluation

Legal Correctness

This IEP was in full compliance with the law. My first piece of evidence is that all the

applicable sections were thoroughly completed. Also, all of the required people were at the IEP

meeting. Furthermore all the appropriate noticed have been given/ included and it includes

annual goals that are easily measurable and observable. Finally, it discusses LRE.

The Eight Sections

To start off, this student has no special considerations. Under her “Present levels of

Academic Achievement” this student (in 3rd grade) was scoring in kindergarten-first grade in the

various components of ELA. For math the was scoring in second grade (she has not done the

PSSA yet, so this was done using a variety of diagnostic assessments.) She is not yet 14 years

old, so the transition services section is not applicable.

As for her participation in state and local assessments, she will participate in all local

assessments, and will participate in the PSSA. She will receive her testing accomodations such as

extended time and taking them in a small group setting in the special education room, with the

special education teacher.

 Her goals are primarily in ELA and include objectives such as increasing her right word

recognition and writing five sentence paragraphs. In terms of aids, services, modifications and

such, she doesn’t receive any therapies (OT, PT, ST). However she will receive most of the

accommodations such as extended time on tests, preferential seating, working in small groups

when not in the special education room, having tests read to her and so on. In terms of her

educational placement, she is in the special education room for 19% of the school day

(approximately 1.5 hours out of a 6.75 hour school day) primarily for ELA instruction. Finally,

for the PENN data sheet, it was thoroughly and accurately completed.

Changes I would make.

First of all I will say there isn’t really anything I would do to make it more legally

compliant since it already legally compliant. But there are a couple of changes I would make in

order for it to be more effective. First of all, I would make the accommodations and

modifications more tailored to her (for example I’ve noticed she does best on tests where she is

sitting with someone and having hem read it to her on a 1:1 basis) and get rid of the ones that

don’t really seem to be helping. Also I would try to work opportunities to just practice her

reading into her IEP (for example make it so that her IEP says she goes and reads to the school

therapy dog on Friday). Not high pressure, graded assignments or anything, but just a chance to

practice.